I amazingly missed her pic in the post. Thanks. Still - one would think raising a black son she has some idea, even if she herself is spared the racism.

An understandable reaction in my mind.

I would be in jail right now if I was that mother. I would have lost my shit and rampaged through that town.

That statement makes me so angry. What about the trauma that this boy will experience for the rest of his life? I can’t imagine having been his age and some malicious teenagers decided to fucking hang me from a tree and no one gave enough shits to make sure that the people who harmed me had to pay the consequences.…

“Mistakes they make as a young child should not have to follow them for the rest of their life,” Chase said.*